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Call to Action: Mass Fare Evasion in Response to Police Shooting

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NYPD PIGS SHOOT 4 PEOPLE—INCLUDING A FELLOW PIG—AFTER ONE MAN EVADES MTA FARE

STATE-SANCTIONED MURDER OVER A $2.90 TICKET

RESIST PIG VIOLENCE! STOP COP NATION!

FARES ARE FREE. DON’T PAY. JOIN US IN MASS FARE EVASION. TAKE OUR CITY BACK FROM THE PIGS.

LET REPRESSION BREED MORE RESISTANCE.

ALL ZIONIST, POLICE & SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURE ARE LEGITIMATE TARGETS. 🔻🔻🔻

Just four days ago, Governor Kathy Hochul praised the National Guard for their presence in subway stations. Her celebration of increased pig pollution—including random bag checks—and her proposed legislation banning masks on the subway have been part of the state’s effort to repress protests for Palestine in NYC. However, the escalated policing of public transit is not only a war on activists, but on ALL New Yorkers, whose lives are endangered by increased exposure to the scourge of COVID-19 and trigger-happy pigs on their daily commute. MAKE NO MISTAKE: FASCISM IS ALREADY HERE IN AMERIKKKA.

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Police Shooting In NYC Subway Injures NYPD Officer, 2 Bystanders

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New York City Police fired shots in a Brooklyn subway station while pursuing a person they suspected of fare evasion, injuring the man along with an NYPD officer and two bystanders.

Around 3 p.m. Sunday, two NYPD officers followed a 37-year-old man to the platform at the Sutter Avenue station in the eastern part of the borough after observing that he did not pay the subway fare.

The man reportedly refused to stop on the platform after police asked him to stop.

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference that the individual told officers, “I’m going to kill you if you don’t stop following me.” Maddrey added that the police then “become aware that he has a knife in his pocket.”

The officers followed the man onto a northbound train that had arrived in the station. According to police, after the man refused orders from the officers to come with them, they used a Taser on him twice.

The individual then moved back onto the platform and advanced towards one of the officers with his knife. Both officers drew their weapons, fired multiple rounds and then handcuffed the man, who was on the ground. At that point, one of the officers noticed he had been hit by a bullet, as well as the indivudal and other bystanders.

Detectives reviewed video footage from the incident and determined that it’s possible that a bullet ricocheted off of the inside of the train and hit the officer.

The suspect, two bystanders and the officer were hospitalized after the incident. The NYPD officer sustained an injury after being shot in the chest area, but is in “good spirits and expected to make a full recovery,” NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon said at the press conference.

“There will be a full and thorough investigation conducted into this incident as we always do in cases like this,” Donlon said.

The individual suspected of fare evasion is currently in critical condition with charges pending.

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